Journaling

I have been journaling lately (actually when don’t I journal, I must have 15 different books started at one time or another) to keep track of this phase of my challenge. I’ve joined two blogging challenges, and started the Chalene Extreme workouts for June so thought I’d track EVERYTHING and be totally honest with myself. I didn’t start it June 1^st, but rather June 9^th so I was already a week behind for the exercise start date, but not the Blog challenges. So this morning I reviewed it to see how I have been doing (like I didn’t already know) and I’ve not been a good girl.

 

I can eat 100% on track, clean and lean throughout the day but when I get home I make the wrong choices. I highlighted problem areas in my book in florescent pink and there is a circle around something almost EVERY day. It’s an eye opener. I have succeeded in keeping the calories under 2000 per day even on the “bad” days (I want to keep it to 1500 and eating clean only), and with all my exercising, I should be burning them off lickety split, but I think (and I’m pretty sure I am right) what I am eating is just staying on my body regardless of the amount of exercising. I think I am going through a pre-menopausal stage (am 2 weeks late so far) and 47 years old, and I have yo-yo’d for the last 20 years, so my metabolism is totally screwed. I need to fix it.

 

Journals are a good thing.